Bioluminescense relies on pigments and specific proteins involved to convert energy to a visible wavelength of light. This isn’t the same as the arbitrary calories we burn to maintain homeostasis or the resulting black body radiation.
If different types of cells looked different, we would have zebra stripes. I think only geneticly female people would though, for the same reason only geneticly female cats can be calico.
CORRECTION: This happens in both sexes. The difference between cells comes from whether each cell uses one parent’s X chromosome or the other parent’s. This decision happens when there’s just 100 or so cells, so the different cells spread like rock layers as they divide, leaving stripes of them covering the body.
What’s concerning is figuring out the evolutionary advantage of being able to hide from predators who have eyes 1000x more sensitive to light than anything on Earth…
Technically you are, just at a frequency your eyes aren’t tuned to see.
Apparently humans actually have zebra stripes when illuminated under the right circumstances.
Yeah in the blacklight at the furry con
Nuh uh. I’m a Scalie.
Idk if blackbody radiation counts as bioluminescence
Technically humans are also photosynthetic just not in a way that’s able to make food.
I mean vitamin D is kinda necessary for us to live…
So in a way we are…
Uh yeah, no.
Bioluminescense relies on pigments and specific proteins involved to convert energy to a visible wavelength of light. This isn’t the same as the arbitrary calories we burn to maintain homeostasis or the resulting black body radiation.
That being said, gene therapy really has come a long way and bioluminescense is pretty well understood to the point of being an undergrad lab in intro bio, so really, there is nothing stopping you from GMO’ing yourself to have glowing pigments.
Also, if you making the claim we’ve got zebra stripes under some conditions, please explain those conditions.
If different types of cells looked different, we would have zebra stripes. I think only geneticly female people would though, for the same reason only geneticly female cats can be calico.
CORRECTION: This happens in both sexes. The difference between cells comes from whether each cell uses one parent’s X chromosome or the other parent’s. This decision happens when there’s just 100 or so cells, so the different cells spread like rock layers as they divide, leaving stripes of them covering the body.
Ok. Show me that.
An article:
https://www.sciencealert.com/you-can-t-see-it-but-humans-actually-glow-in-visible-light
The paper:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0006256
It’s pretty old, no idea about folowups
Thanks.
Also: Blaschko’s lines
What’s concerning is figuring out the evolutionary advantage of being able to hide from predators who have eyes 1000x more sensitive to light than anything on Earth…
Maybe an Artifact of evolution. That’s what happens when you dont Defragment your DNA every now and then!